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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Chem Biol. 2007 Sep 11;11(5):561–568. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.07.014

Table 1.

Identified histone lysine demethylases.

Demethylase Alternate Name Site Specificity Demethylates Refs
Flavin dependent
  LSD1 BHC110, AOF2 H3K4 mono, di [8••]
Fe(II) α-ketoglutarate dependent
  JHDM1A FBXL11 H3K36 mono, di [14]
  JMJD1A JHDM2A, TSGA H3K9 mono, di [15]
  JMJD2A JHDM3A H3K9, H3K36 tri, di [16,17]
  JMJD2B KIAA0876 H3K9 tri, di [18]
  JMJD2C GASC1 H3K9, H3K36 tri, di [19,20]
  JMJD2D KIAA0780 H3K9 tri, di, mono [20]
  JARID1A RBP2 H3K4 tri, di [21]
  JARID1B PLU-1 H3K4 tri, di [22]
  JARID1C SMCX H3K4 tri, di [23]
  JARID1D SMCY H3K4 tri, di [24]